The Concorde service was introduced with great hoopla 1976, and in the years afterward both British Airways and Air France have shown considerable marketing skill with their needle-nosed airplanes.
When Petersen and the others have finished with their needles, they put them in a sharps bin.
Just out of sight, the phlebotomists are at work behind the curtains with their needles: pricking veins and turning tubes incarnadine.
When I started collecting racehorse urine in the '60s, veterinarians were not allowed to be around horses with their needles and drugs on raceday in America.
The butterflies become a magnet, attracting television crews, day-trippers in S.U.V.s, and a lumpy group of knitters determined to immortalize the beauty of the butterflies with their needles and recycled orange wool.
They lived on petty theft, fortune-telling, and pass-the-hat music, and what food they could find; the Reinhardt family, in Manouche fashion, had a particular fondness for niglos — feral hedgehogs roasted whole with their needles on.
A total of 70% of patients surveyed said they took insulin using a syringe and 30% said they used a pen; most (56%) changed their needle with each injection.
The Thackers, she theorises, with their neurotic needling and ferocious competitiveness, must be failed actors themselves, the product of stage schools that didn't make it, and are now compensating by rechannelling their frustrated energies into journalism.
It was a chilly day in Chantilly, Va., with mist so heavy it wanted to be rain, and the greens and grays of the rosemaries, with their spiky needles and their little flowers, ranging from powdery blue to deep blue to white, tugged at my heart.
In the early 90's, drug users were advised to clean their needles with bleach to protect against the virus.
